Arakawa Ward, hospital.
Teppei Uehara was carrying a box of fresh strawberries he had just bought, anxiously waiting for the permission to visit him to be approved.
"Mr. Uehara..." A virtual image of a nurse popped up on the display on the face of the robot in front of him. Just as he was about to speak, Teppei Uehara couldn't wait to put his personal terminal on the card reader on the robot's palm and got permission.
Teppei Uehara put away his personal terminal and entered the hospital area through the turnstile.
"Yuko." Teppei Uehara opened the door to the ward and called his sister's name.
"You're here, brother." Uehara Yuko, who was lying on the hospital bed, turned around and said hello casually.
"Sorry, I'm late." Teppei Uehara came to the bedside and asked with concern, "How is the situation?"
"The operation is considered a success." Yuko Uehara lifted the quilt, revealing the leg wrapped in gauze. "The steel pillar that penetrated the thigh has been taken out."
"Through the thigh... didn't you say it was just a fracture?" Teppei Uehara was a little unbelievable, "Why are you lying about this?"
"It's useless to tell my brother anyway." Uehara Yuko turned her face away.
"How could it be useless?" Teppei Uehara's tone was quite complaining, "What do you want to eat now? I brought a box of your favorite strawberries."
Yuko Uehara picked up the box of strawberries and read out the price on the label: "Eleven thousand yen."
"Do you think it's cheap? I'll buy a new one right away." Teppei Uehara said quickly,
"That's not the case. I'm very happy that my brother can buy me strawberries." Uehara Yuko shook her head, "It's just that this number is too coincidental."
"Coincidence?" Teppei Uehara was a little confused.
"Because I have no money to buy medical insurance, my treatment fee is 11 million yen." Yuko Uehara raised her head and looked directly at Teppei Uehara, "I have asked a broker to guarantee me and borrowed money from the bank."
"Why? How can you easily authorize your credit account to someone else?" Teppei Uehara said with a hint of fear in his tone, "If you need money, I can collect it."
As he talked about it, Teppei Uehara's voice got lower, because he knew that he would not be able to raise so much money in a short time.
"I don't mean to blame my brother." Yuko Uehara said softly, "Before I do this, I want to ask my brother, do you know that grandpa is actually a senior cadre of the Black Dragon Association?"
"How do you know..." Uehara Teppei asked subconsciously, but he realized in an instant that his behavior had exposed the answer.
"As expected." There was a trace of disappointment in Uehara Yuko's eyes. "Grandpa is very rich, but he never uses it on us. Even your brain-computer interface, brother, can only be installed with your own money." The worst.”
"Perhaps grandpa doesn't want to use the black money he earned through Yakuza means." Teppei Uehara quickly defended Sato, "After our parents died in a car accident, he was the one who raised us until now."
"That's just a responsibility imposed on him by the law." Yuko Uehara shook her head, "His goodwill towards us was completely lost long ago because his father opposed his arranged marriage, changed his surname to his wife and eloped with someone else."
"It's not like that." Teppei Uehara wanted to defend, but he couldn't think of any powerful words.
"Brother, you understand wrong. I don't blame you and grandpa. On the contrary, I am very grateful to you." Uehara Yuko said slowly, "I am just tired of this kind of life that has some hope but actually no hope. "
"I fell into a coma yesterday after falling off the stage. After I woke up, I was lying on the hospital bed looking at the unfamiliar ceiling and thinking a lot." Uehara Yuko interrupted Uehara Teppei's words, "Actually, I knew that grandpa was After becoming a senior cadre of the Yakuza, I began to fantasize, thinking that grandpa would suddenly change his mind one day and treat us as real grandchildren."
"This way, my brother can go to a better private school, and I don't have to hide in the toilet to touch up my makeup." Uehara Yuko's tone was full of longing, "This boring fantasy lasted for several years, until last night I fell off the stage, and then I realized that it was time to wake up from the dream.”
"At this time, the agent came to me and asked me if I would like his help in providing low-interest loans." Yuko Uehara's eyes were full of determination, "I told him that not only did I need a loan, but I also had to sign a deed of sale."
The contract of sale is the underground idol’s nickname for the contract provided by the entertainment conglomerates when they promote newcomers. The underground idols maintain an ambiguous attitude towards this contract because it will provide the best resources, but it will also buy out the bottom five signees at once. A decade of everything and only extending an olive branch to the best underground icons.
"How could you do this? You should at least discuss this matter with me!" Teppei Uehara stood up, looking horrified.
"That's it." Uehara Yuko took a bite of the strawberry, "Thank you for the strawberry, it's very delicious."
Uehara Yuko pressed the rest button, and the guard patrolling the corridor immediately came in and asked Uehara Teppei to leave.
Unable to resist, Teppei Uehara could only let the guards pull him out of the hospital and cancel his visiting permission.
In a daze, he followed his subconscious and got on the tram home. He walked all the way to the downstairs of the low-rent house where Yuanye had rented before, and then he suddenly woke up and dialed Yuanye's phone.
Gen Ye answered the phone quickly, and Teppei Uehara was stunned for a while before he could hold back a sentence: "Would you like a midnight snack?"
Genye seemed to hear that something was wrong with Teppei Uehara's voice, so he did not refuse: "I'm moving. Wait for me in the park. I'll be here in five minutes."
Five minutes later, Yuanye arrived at the park.
"You're not really just asking me out for supper, are you?" Yuan Ye asked, "What happened?"
"I don't understand why you are so obsessed with getting into New Imperial University. You were not like this before." Uehara Teppei did not answer Genya's question, "Do you really want to become a human master?"
"We should ask, if we don't become human beings, what other path can we take?" Yuan Ye asked, "Should I find a job directly after graduating from high school and work odd jobs that won't get a salary increase for more than ten years; or should I find a job casually? Go to college for four years and find a job as a dispatch employee with an annual salary of 300,000 yuan?"
"Then after you reach the age of twenty-eight, go to a matching website to find a girlfriend or simply rent a girlfriend in exchange for a tax deduction on renting a house so that you don't have to sleep under an overpass. Then you can find someone to partner with or be lucky enough to find a lover with her. If you give birth to a child, you will not be charged the high after-tax after you turn 30, and you will have to live in a cramped low-rent house with no more than 20 stacks for the rest of your life." Yuanye asked, "Do you really want to live such a life?"
"If you are admitted to Cintiqi University, it will be equivalent to getting a ticket to enter a chaebol company." Yuanye calmed himself down and said calmly, "Your monthly salary will be equal to your age during the first year of internship. When you become a full-time employee, Then double it and increase it with age, and you won’t be fired unless you make a big mistake, so at least you and your sister can have a happy life.”
"Although the greening in Yingzhou is very good now, due to environmental protection, Christmas trees have to be imported from the Rakshasa Kingdom. The market price of an 80-centimeter Christmas tree is 570,000 yen." Yuanye said cruelly. This number, "Do you think the money you earned from working this year can buy a tree? What's more, you don't want to work yet."
Teppei Uehara was unable to refute the pointed questions, and in the end could only respond with silence.
After a while, Teppei Uehara found a topic and reluctantly spoke: "Have you found a way to make money?"
"Found it." Yuan Ye replied, "But I don't know if it works yet."
"If you find it, please call me. I should be able to provide some help with electronic technology." Teppei Uehara said resignedly, "You are right, we should find a way to make some money. This is my responsibility. , and it is also my obligation.”
"Of course, I need your help too." Yuan Ye agreed.
Uehara Teppei felt relieved after saying these words, and his whole body became energetic: "Going to eat a bowl of ramen?"
Although he didn't know what happened to Teppei Uehara, Genya nodded and said, "Okay, let's go to Uncle Arima."
The two of them walked towards Master Arima's ramen stall with their arms around each other.
